Dude wheres my pompey

Al Pacino as Caesar
De Niro as Pompey
Pesci as Crassus

>Crassus getting dabbed on by producers 2000 years later
Poor lad; he just wanted to have a conquest equal to Pompey and Caesar but got heemed

>TV show set during Antiquity
>doesn't spend a single second explaining a thing to the viewer
Will there ever be a show like Rome again?

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Unlikely. It's the reason why Rome got cancelled though because it was too hard for people to follow. Normies don't know what a Tribune of the Plebeians is or what it means

>I think they’re almost out of arrows, men!
>OH N-

He was left by his Armenian allies

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Seriously? I thought it was just because it was too expensive. I was like 16 when this show came out and knew almost nothing about Rome, but I don’t remember having any difficulty following what was going on.

Well it was too expensive because not enough people were watching.

You don't need to know the meaning of titles to understand the context of a scene.

Well there must be a reason people didn't watch it but watched GoT because they're literally the same series except one actually happened and should be more interesting

Seasons 1 and 2 of both shows had comparable ratings. And Rome aired during a time before streaming which meant it had a smaller potential pool of viewers. There's no way way rating had anything to do with cancellation.

Well surely if the ratings were high enough to justify the cost, then the cost wouldn't matter

childhood is idolizing ancient Rome
adulthood is realizing that ancient Greece is superior

like and share please

It was both actually. It was very expensive to make and the ratings were not as high as expected. Besides, the studios in Italy caught a fire, and because of the budget and time constraints, HBO decided to rush through the second season and end the series with Octavian's triumph, compacting the Egypt arc into a mere couple of episodes, among other missed opportunities. Originally, the series was set to cover most of Octavian's life at least.

bullshit
Greece did it first, but Rome build upon it and modernized and improved it

>well

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YOU DREAM

>soijacker commenting on anyone's posting
Well

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>ancient Greece is superior
there was no such thing as ancient Greece. There were some villages full of homosexuals that fought with each other.
And then the romans came and found some interesting texts and made the greeks famous.

t. Publius

nice headcanon, just like my animes

>Poor lad
Crassus was richiest guy in the Rome

richest guy in rome has a shit life compared to poor niggers today, no joke. but he probably had more sex at least.

why did they make cicero such a fag?

I liked his character. He was someone who killed people with words. Acting like a limp wrist fag in front of Antony caused Antony to underestimate his character, because brute strength was all Antony knew.

The show had good ratings. The problem was the show cost more to make than most others. Getting better ratings wasn't really an option. The only way to get HBO in 2007 was to already have a cable or satellite package and then buy HBO on top of it. If the show had normal production costs it would have kept going. Saying it was cancelled due to ratings implies no one was watching it which was not the case.

Because he was a fag IRL who constantly switched to whatever side was winning
He was basically the nerdy loser lawyer today

t. Persian

Imagine being this ignorant.

>the ratings were not as high as expected

Ratings were not low, just not as high as expected. For its time the production was insanely expensive, but "good ratings" were not enough to justify the cost.

>Saying it was cancelled due to ratings implies no one was watching it which was not the case.

No it doesn't obtuse moron. There are not only "good" and bad ratings. There were plenty of HBO shows with good ratings like True Detective and Boardwalk Empire, and others, that doesn't mean that any of these shows ever reached the levels of audience that Game of Thrones did at its peak (which even kept when it got progressively worse). HBO was expecting the latter (with numbers adjusted to Rome's release year), but it missed the mark, it was not popular enough so it lost support. And financial troubles were the cherry on top. So it's perfectly correct that the show was cancelled due to ratings, even if it wasn't the only main cause.

>If the show had normal production costs it would have kept going

How so? You wanted a family sitcom or something? They even cut most of the main battles, all of them developed and ended off screen

lol retard

>HBO was expecting the latter (with numbers adjusted to Rome's release year), but it missed the mark
I already told you Season 1 and 2 of both shows had comparable ratings. Saying Rome was cancelled because it didn't have GoT ratings is flat out wrong when they had the same ratings. GoT later season rating are irrelevant.

>m muh Alexander

>For its time the production was insanely expensive
That's the point you obtuse moron. The show had higher than normal costs, that's why it was cancelled. It would have been impossible for the show to improve on already really good ratings.

the romans were thugs and mongrels that stole all their culture from greece

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Air conditioning and deodorant is pretty great but having hundreds of slaves would also be pretty great, and the ability to sex them

kek'd and rek'd

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the english, the french, the spanish, the americans stole all their culture from the Romans.
The greeks probably stole it fro somewhere else. And those peoples stole it from the alien civilization.

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>having hundreds of slaves would also be pretty great, and the ability to sex them
so you'd have to feed and house your slaves, also take them to the medicus, the last thing you want is your slaves to contract a pestilence, dying and potentially taking your house with them.

then after this basic shit, you still have a stinky human that has to be washed and maybe does want you fucking their butthole. so in the end it's more trouble than it's worth, and this is why there were brothels are well. a lot of brothels.

hi iq post

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only americans really "stole" it, the rest inherited it

What culture? The culture of sucking each other's dicks? Even latter Greeks were ashamed of being Greeks and called themselves Roman. As late as 1910 the Anatolian Greeks couldn't bear the shame of their real ancestry.

All of that shit is nothing compared to having to work 8 hours a day for 50 years. Modern life is so shit, and it's steadily going further down the drain. No amount of technology is worth this. Technology was supposed to decrease the amount of work and worries we have. Instead governments use technology to fuck us in the ass.

The idea of stealing culture is fucking retarded sjw garbage. Every culture is moving in a line and influences every other culture. If you wear blue jeans and t shirts and listen to rock music you owe us herp derp fuck off dumbass

>8 hours a day for 50 years
yeah instead of 14 hours a day for 20 years, right? and then death. furthermore this "work" is probably easy shit like typing on a computer or making xerox copies. even if you're in construction you're standing around half the time waiting for other guys to do their thing.

modern live is SO EASY and no one has any idea. the people who had slaves to fuck in rome were monied btw, so they didn't really work. they networked. then as it is now it's not what you know but who you know.

>then after this basic shit, you still have a stinky human that has to be washed and maybe does want you fucking their butthole. so in the end it's more trouble than it's worth, and this is why there were brothels are well. a lot of brothels.
You're thinking of snowniggers. The Romans bathed often and there were not really any diseases going around until the Justinian's plague that was transported from Chinkland

We're not comparing the average roman to the average modern man. The richest man in rome definitely had it easier, you just said yourself he doesn't really work.
Modern life is only easy in the sense that we do less physical activity. The amount of mental stress, mental illness and work that we do is significantly higher.

not true; another thing modern people take for granted is sanitation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_in_Imperial_Rome
>As said by Roman Physician Galen, "This populous city, where daily ten thousand people can be discovered suffering from jaundice, and ten thousand from dropsy."

This is just wikipedia shit. You can make such a case of people suffering various diseases in every major city in the world even today. Fact is the Romans didn't suffer from any major plague until Justinian and that was in large part of the devastating war that was conducted in Italy during that time.

user that page literally lists two plagues that occured before, in rome, there are citations. justinian plague sounds like it occured in eastern empire. bottom line cramming a million people into a city with submodern sanitation methods is a hotbed for disease. ditto sharing a hot fucking bath with thousands of people. how disgusting is that? warm water breeds parasites.